Healing is what happens when Pastoral Practitioners minister, enabling people to receive restoration to health of body and mind through God's great love and mercy. This restoration of health is part of what is meant by the "abundant life" which the Lord promised.

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Texas mother was powerless to bring her daughter home after she was taken to Sundance Hospital. Source: CBS 11 DFW.

Being held against one’s will is one of the most frightening, and powerless, things a person can experience. Whether it is a hostage situation with a bank robber, or a masked man holding a loved one for ransom, the terror experienced by both the victim and the family of the victim is the stuff of blockbuster movies, and the hero swoops in and defeats the bad guys, setting the captives free.

What do Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso all have in common aside from their incredible painting abilities? These three artists all shared a love of absinthe, a botanical spirit made from wormwood, anise and fennel.

Absinthe is currently illegal in the U.S. as well as many other countries, but it’s still available in Europe. You may have heard of wormwood because of its inclusion in this famous European beverage, but did you know that it also holds an ability to aid many common and serious health concerns?

It’s seems like there’s a plethora of natural foods and herbs that are touted as superfoods, but none may be quite as deserving as spirulina. In fact, spirulina is often deemed the most nutritionally complete of all food supplements. If you take a closer look at what it contains, you’ll find out why...

Schizophrenia is a devastating and complex disease that can include a variety of specific clinical conditions. Drugs to treat schizophrenia have not advanced much beyond the 1960s; in many cases they are not very effective, and they have severe side-effects. The problem is that the cause of schizophrenia is unknown, and precisely how the drugs affect brain circuitry is also unknown.

North Korean defectors have complained that radiation from nuclear testing in rural North Korea has led to birth deformations, cancer and even death.

Lee Jeong Hwa, a North Korean defector, said in an interview with NBC News, “So many people died we began calling it ‘ghost disease.’” Lee fled Kilju County, which is nearby Punggye-ri, a nuclear testing site.

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“We thought we were dying because we were poor and we ate badly,” Lee said. “Now we know it was the radiation.”

In 1962, the Christmas season began, of course, on September 10. That was the day the Sears, Roebuck Christmas Catalog arrived in the mail. As a 7-year-old, I had an already well-established and not uncommon kid's holiday priority: getting more presents. My brothers, no less mercenary than I, taught by example what I hardly needed instruction about. Christmas was our one big chance, our fondest annual hope, to get as much as we possibly could finagle out of our parents. My father earned just barely enough; my mother worked a tight budget; and birthday gifts were too often just clothes.